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Issue 242 (October 2018) - Hottest Distros 2018

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We’re celebrating the hottest distro releases of 2018! Not just the software but the thousands of unsung heroes behind the scenes that help create a full Linux distribution from the maintainers and developers to the document writers and blog posters. We’ll even show you how to make your own, so you can share the pain!

We also look at how open source gaming projects can help retro games live on in a modern world! We test the best email clients. Scan barcodes. Mess with images in Audacity. Install Linux on Lenovo laptops. Create a home VPN and loads more!

 Features

Hottest Distros 2018

(Mayank Sharma)
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Open source games

(Jonni Bidwell)
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Answers

Pi undervolt, Brother printer, LVM Grub boot, finding networked devices (Jonni Bidwell)
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Interview: The Code Less Travelled

Jonni Bidwell had never talked to anyone who programmed BASIC for helicopters. Until he met Eleanor McHugh (Jonni Bidwell)
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 Coverdisc

DVD pages

Manjaro Gnome 17.1.12, Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon, Bodhi Linux 5.0 (Neil Bothwick)
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Hotpicks

Zanshin, Radeon-profile, Marker, Tremotesf, LibreSprite, LibreOffice, Socr, Pale Moon, ImageFeatureDetector, Freeciv, Doom Retro (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 Tutorials

ISBN book wizard

(Les Pounder)
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Pi powered displays

(Sean Conway)
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Liquid Prompt

(Shashank Sharma)
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Linux on ThinkPad laptops

(John Lane)
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Qtractor

Compose and record better (John Knight)
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Munin and Monit

monitoring advanced users and admins (Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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Perl

also PowerShell on Ubuntu (Valentin Sinitsyn)
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OpenVPN

VPiN VPN gateway (Adam Oxford)
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Art with Audacity

(Alex Cox)
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 Coding Academy

Whiptail

(Mark Chisholm)
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Cellular automata

(Mike Bedford)
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 Reviews

Thermal camera

(Les Pounder)
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WD Red NAS 10TB

(Linux Format)
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Omada EAP225 Outdoor WiFi antenna

(Linux Format)
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Quirky 8.6

(Shashank Sharma)
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IPFire 2.21

(Shashank Sharma)
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Zorin OS 12.4 Core

(Shashank Sharma)
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Arma 3

(Linux Format)
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Email clients

Claws Mail, Evolution, Kmail, Mailspring, Thunderbird (Shashank Sharma)
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 More

News: News

Valve drinksthe Wine, Android 9 Pie released, AMD CPU performance, Lubuntu 20.10 drops X.Org, Liberapay returns (Matt Hanson)
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